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Turn And Face The STRANGE
Mar. 14th, 2006 01:46 amHey.
My father decided to spiff up a vehicle he's selling to my brother, so we went looking for replacement hubcaps.
Our search brought us to (and I'm not kidding) Strange Auto Salvage in White Pine.
We spent the Lion's Share of an hour sitting in their waiting room while a mechanic tracked down the hubcaps and brought them to us. We took in the ambiance...redolent in the noise of tools, the smell of grease and oil and rubber, the cliche classic rock radio playing in the background, and the chatter of the mechanics. While we were being waited on, other mechanics were in the main shop removing an engine from a totalled Chevy SUV.
My fictive mind was attempting to morph the setting and circumstances to a future where the place would be servicing the needs of mecha owners rather than motorists. "Leg access panels for a Contender Mark III? Well, I'm not sure...I thought they all had forged leg structures and integral armor plating. Maybe we can substitute units from a Powerbrute...got plenty of those."
"Don't worry about the blaster scoring...go over it a little with a lambdanite torch and it'll look factory fresh!"
Yes, it is surreal. But I'm a cyberpunk at heart.
FP
My father decided to spiff up a vehicle he's selling to my brother, so we went looking for replacement hubcaps.
Our search brought us to (and I'm not kidding) Strange Auto Salvage in White Pine.
We spent the Lion's Share of an hour sitting in their waiting room while a mechanic tracked down the hubcaps and brought them to us. We took in the ambiance...redolent in the noise of tools, the smell of grease and oil and rubber, the cliche classic rock radio playing in the background, and the chatter of the mechanics. While we were being waited on, other mechanics were in the main shop removing an engine from a totalled Chevy SUV.
My fictive mind was attempting to morph the setting and circumstances to a future where the place would be servicing the needs of mecha owners rather than motorists. "Leg access panels for a Contender Mark III? Well, I'm not sure...I thought they all had forged leg structures and integral armor plating. Maybe we can substitute units from a Powerbrute...got plenty of those."
"Don't worry about the blaster scoring...go over it a little with a lambdanite torch and it'll look factory fresh!"
Yes, it is surreal. But I'm a cyberpunk at heart.
FP
